From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 23:08:53 GMT
Subject: Re: check if one branch contains another branch
Message-ID: <xmqq1rnv2vi2.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+KyZp7TELrswPjNgB99BXXHEXi5pRr5bO3g_wy7zBvv1R4Kww@mail.gmail.com>

Alexander Mills <alexander.d.mills@gmail.com> writes:

> I am looking for a command:
>
> 1>  if branch x contains branch y
>
> right now all I can find is
>
> 2> if current branch contains commit y
>
> can someone please accomplish #1 ?

Study "git merge-base --is-ancestor" perhaps?